Domestic wells in Montezuma County

1,031 of the 2,111 well permits in Montezuma County — 48.8% — are decreed for domestic.

How this group compares

Montezuma County holds 0.4% of Colorado’s 243,096 domestic permits, while holding 0.4% of the register overall — so it is over-represented in this use.

Domestic means household water, and usually a little more — the commonest decreed use in Colorado by a wide margin.

What happened to these permits

658 of the 1,031 permits decreed for domestic in Montezuma County ended with a well the Division was told about — 63.8%. And 214 expired without one: 20.8%.

An expired permit is the trap in a rural sale. A seller can produce a permit that lapsed years ago, and a permit is not a water right — the two are separate, and a purchase turns on both. What an expired permit does and does not mean.

Buying land in Montezuma County, or need a well drilled?

1,031 well permits are on the Division’s register in Montezuma County, 214 of them expired. This site tells you what a permit says; it does not drill, and it is not advice on a water right. Tell us where and we pass the request to drillers and water-rights advisers working in Colorado.

We take no commission and we recommend no driller. We have no arrangement with any firm today — we are collecting these requests in order to go and find them. What we do with this.

The permits

Part of a bigger picture: all 2,111 permits in Montezuma County, and every domestic permit in Colorado.

Other groups of a similar size

• Irrigation — El Paso 1,164
• Other — El Paso 1,162
• Commercial — La Plata 1,103
• Monitoring/sampling — Morgan 1,103
• Household Use Only — Alamosa 1,102
• Irrigation — Washington 1,098
• Stock — Morgan 1,075
• Monitoring/sampling — Routt 1,068
• Household Use Only — Pitkin 1,064
• Commercial — Adams 1,007
• Municipal — El Paso 1,003